At 06:58 am 19/05/2005 -0700, Beene wrote: <snip>
>This is another grand feature (maybe) of the completed concept, as >the energy product of these sailing factories is not electrical >current at all, but instead is **liquid air** (enriched in O2). >Whenever there is adequate wind, day or night, the generated power >is used onboard to compress air and cool it in many stages till >liquidified ... but when done in many stages using the ocean heat >sink and with heat-pump efficiency, then we have a proven COP of >about 4, just like the Linde method. The liquid air is stored in >the hulls until a dedicated tender arrives to unload the "fuel" >product and ferry it to shore. One tender could service perhaps a >dozen production vessels spread over 100 miles of open sea, but >not far offshore and lightly crewed. > >Once ashore, the liquid air can be expanded through turbines in a >dedicated power-plant, and especially done so during peak >electrical demand periods, where the "value added" of the storable >fuel is greatest. Since this diurnal demand cycle is also the >hours between 10 AM and 6PM, when the sun is strong, the power >plant can benefit from solar heat in the expansion equation, >collected with mirrors, to boost the expansion efficiency of the >liquid air... and/or, being enriched in O2, even a tiny amount of >methane will push the expansion ratio way over the 100% >"effective" Carnot level. > >Consequently one has accomplished three desirable goals >1) Ecologically sound wind energy >2) Stored energy which can be used at peak demand >3) Aesthetics > >...and possible the best of all, which is not easy to ascertain >now, but looking good, and that is ROI... > >Which is return-on-investment, Roy. > >Jones > >Le Roi d'lover n'est pas Mort, Vive Le Roi! Very ingenious Jones. Worthy of de Bono. ;-) Frank
